K1 Legends Camp

Guess who qualified! Congratulations, Sarah!

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Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We spent the first part of the weekend at the Banff Springs Hotel, during the first snowfall of the season. We felt very spoiled! Especially me, who got to spend an afternoon at the spa. In the evening, the girls and I floated in the hot pool outside, looking up at the stars in the mountains. Amazing.

When we got home, we began planning for Thanksgiving dinner. Sarah and Alison decided to take a big part in the meal. They decorated the dining room and put up barriers to keep the grown-ups out until dinner time.

Here's the big reveal:
They also baked an apple pie for dessert:





The beautiful pie. Notice the turkey design poked onto the top!

Hiking

The ski club took the various groups of kids on a hike at Lake Louise (the actual lake, not the ski hill.) Sarah's group went off one way and I went with Alison's group to the top of the Big Beehive. It was a cool day, but all that climbing made us really hot. Somebody even got a bit short-tempered - actually, both brunette females in the family did. It was definitely a lovely view - see:


That is Lake Louise way down there. We climbed really high!

Can you see the crazy switchback we climbed down? I don't like watching children walk down loose gravel on a narrow path along the side of a mountain.